Da Suining

Chapter 176 Dead Objects
The living room of Huguo Temple.

Because the emperor was coming, the living room was surrounded, and two rows of guards stood on the left and right, making the living room airtight.

The emperor sat by the window, and when the abbot waved, a young novice came in with a wooden tray, presented a bowl of light yellow tea to the emperor, and another bowl to Xiang Suining and the others.

I don't know what kind of tea is used to brew the tea, it smells faintly fragrant, but there is a bit of bitterness after smelling it again, after the bitterness passes, the sweetness returns.

"Your Majesty, please use it slowly." The abbot clasped his hands together.

"Well, go ahead and get busy. If there is something else, I will call you again."

"According to the order."

The abbot took three steps back and retreated respectfully.

The imperial physician who treated Monk Falling into the Water just now has returned, raised his robes and knelt down and replied: "The masters have already caught the medicine and fried it. The monk has taken the medicine and sweated a little. After two days of coming here, the cold will go away. It just seems that the flesh was injured by a sharp object, and the injury to the flesh will take a few days to heal, and it will be maintained, that is."

The emperor nodded, he understood.

"I didn't expect to meet the second girl here. Did the second girl come to the Water and Land Fa Association to watch the fun?" The emperor asked with a smile after taking a sip of tea.

It can't be said that he came to arrest Guo Cheng.

Xiang Suining had no choice but to stand up and give a blessing: "It is a daughter's honor to meet the emperor."

Guo Kai lowered his head, his hands were so cramped that he didn't know where to put them.

The first prince and the five princes all used tea, but the second prince, Guo Cheng, was awkward, as if a needle had pricked his buttocks on the brocade stool, and he couldn't sit properly, so the emperor asked him: "Why, the tea here is not suitable?" Is your appetite?"

"Son... I don't dare." Guo Kai hurriedly picked up the tea and took a sip. After drinking this big mouthful of tea, he felt unbearable pain, just like drinking a cup of medicinal soup. The tea he drank was a tribute, such as Pekoe, such as Yunwu, or Longjing, Tieguanyin. If this bitter tea dared to be served in front of him, he would be the first to twist the head of the person who served him. This tea is for people to drink ?

Fifth prince Guo thought that he didn't swallow it, so he held the tea bowl and said with a smile: "Second brother took a sip of tea in his throat and didn't spit it out, didn't swallow it, is he rinsing his mouth?"

"Pfft——" Guo Kai broke his skills.

I didn't want to laugh at first, but I couldn't help it.

Guo Yi's words made people angry, but Guo Kai didn't know why, so he laughed out loud, and the emperor's black boots were soaked by this sip of tea.

Bold, who would dare to do such a thing?

Several people knelt down.

Xiang Suining also had no choice but to put down the tea bowl, and knelt down shallowly.

"Get up." The emperor didn't seem to be angry, and when everyone sat back, he stared at Guo Cheng and asked, "It seems that Cheng doesn't like this tea?"

"Father, the tea is a bit bitter."

"Of all the things in the world, there are a few that are not bitter, you say."

"My son..."

"Do you think the monk is suffering?"

"Father..."

"Why do you torture a monk?"

"Father... I... I don't have one."

"I watched you grow up since you were a child. Do I not know what you think? The monk has taken the medicine and has now awakened. Although the monk does not dispute right and wrong and is very tight-lipped, if I ask him to confront you , do you think he will deceive the king?"

"This……"

"Are you going to frame Miss Xiang Er, saying that she pushed people down? Not to mention the empress dowager, it is the crime of deceiving the emperor, can you bear it?" The emperor's face was gloomy, a little ugly.

He is usually not so angry with the prince.

What kind of character Guo Cheng is, he is not at a loss in his mind.

This guy can molested court ladies in his teens, and dared to drag them to the bed at the age of thirteen or fourteen regardless of whether they were alive or not.

How many of the little eunuchs who followed him had never been beaten?
Back then, there was a ten-year-old boy who came to the palace from a poor family. The emperor saw that he was about the same age as Guo Kai, and wanted to serve Guo Kai.

At the beginning, Guo Wei liked it very much, but he also got close to the little eunuch for a few days. After a few days, he went to play dice and gamble. , when he was practicing in the martial arts field, he asked the little eunuch to stand under the tree with an orange on his back under the pretext of practicing the hundred-step piercing. He stood far away and started shooting arrows. He shot the little eunuch in one eye Well, the little eunuch's eyes were bleeding at that time, his eyes drooped, and he lay on the ground in pain and passed out.

Because of bad eyesight, the palaces were unwilling to ask for it, so they sent him to clean the toilet. The little eunuch was in a depressed mood. He couldn't finish cleaning the toilet all day long. If he could come out, there were dark red toilets floating in the pool. When people found the little eunuch, he had been dead for an unknown amount of time. dangling.

The emperor also called Guo Wei to the Hall of Mental Cultivation for this matter, only saying that the little eunuch who served him died, and asked him what he thought, when Guo Wei was 11 years old, he held a bow and arrow in his hand, and the corners of his mouth could not help Laughing: "Anyway, he's blind too, so it's useless to keep it. A person who can't even clean the toilet well, what is he doing alive?"

Considering that he was young, the emperor didn't scold him too much.

Unexpectedly, Guo Kai was getting older and older, so he didn't learn the benefits at all.

This day the emperor came up to offer incense to the Bodhisattva, and he respectfully participated in the Water and Land Dharma Assembly. I don’t know how sincere he was, but Guo Kai threw the monk in the Huguo Temple into the water in a blink of an eye, which seemed to have tortured him once. It killed people a little bit.

Just imagine how a monk, the most humble and polite, could offend Guo Kai. Obviously, Guo Kai was just looking for trouble and playing tricks on others.

If the bodhisattva has a spirit in the sky, wouldn't it be to blame.

This Guo Cheng, other things are not easy to do, and he has done a lot of things that are slowing down.

So many people, including the abbot and the monk were present, all saw this scene, the emperor lost his face.

If this matter spreads out, the emperor will probably be scolded for being useless, scolding him for being incompetent in raising his son, what the hell is the prince born.

Thinking of this, the emperor became very angry.

Guo Cheng had no choice but to kneel back again: "Father, it's all my son's fault. My son looked at the time and thought that the Water and Land Ceremony was about to start, so he rushed to the main hall, but the monk always blocked Follow my way, he walks without eyes..."

The emperor did not speak, but gave Guo Cheng a look.

This sharp look, you can experience it for yourself.

Guo Kai's heart was pulled up: "I... I know I was wrong. I shouldn't act recklessly to embarrass my father. I will not dare to do it next time. I also ask my father to forgive my son for the sake of Bodhisattva. Minister."

The emperor took a sip of tea, noncommittal.

The fifth prince loves to give Guo Kai eye drops the most.

Seeing that the emperor was about to forgive Guo Kai, the fifth prince hurriedly pretended to be casual and said: "Father, I remember that there was a woman by the release pool just now, and there was a woman by the side of the second brother. It looks like the two are very close." It's very cute, and the woman helped the second brother to talk, and I think she has a very close relationship with the second brother... That woman is outstanding in appearance, she is one of the best in Qingcheng, but she has never seen it before. Under the circumstances, with the second brother, he... caused the second brother to delay the water and land ceremony."

If there were only Guo Kai and Guo Yi in the living room at this time, Guo Kai really wanted to eat Guo Yi raw.

He can really find a topic.

He is really good at fanning the flames, it would be a pity not to burn the boiler.

This ability to see through every stitch is admirable.

The story of the monk had just been turned over, and Guo Yi attracted a thunder and threw it over.

Isn't this fatal?

"That girl seems to be..." The emperor looked at Xiang Suining: "It's about the same age as Miss Xiang Er. If I remember correctly, she seems to be Xiang Daying's third daughter. What is her name Yan? Yan? Yan, anyway, roughly Such a name."

"Second brother, tell me, what's the girl's name?"

"Phase... the third girl."

"There must be a name, right?"

"Her name is...Xiangyan. I don't know her very well. I just met her by chance at the Free Life Pool just now. Don't talk nonsense, fifth brother. The Bodhisattva is watching."

"I remember that my father chose Miss Xiang Er for the second brother. Why is the second brother dissatisfied? Why is he with the third girl... Can't the second brother and the third girl follow the second brother? Spread the word It doesn't sound too good."

"Old five, you—" Guo Kai felt that the knife in his waist was going to be unstoppable, and he really wanted to chop this Guo Yi up and use it as firewood. I don't know what kind of madness Guo Yi has committed in recent years. Guo Cheng did not let go.

Originally, Guo Kai had all his faults, even if others didn’t care about them, his faults would disappear as he went along. Since he got Guo Yi, well, Guo Kai’s faults were all in his mind, which is easier than using Mao’s notebooks. Clearly, as for the literati who wrote history books around the emperor, Guo Yi did not remember Guo Cheng clearly.

The emperor gave Xiang Suining a meaningful look.

Xiang Sui Ning quietly sat on the square chair in front of the screen, with his head slightly lowered, as if he was drinking tea, as if what happened around him had nothing to do with her.

It is admirable to be so calm and breezy at such a young age.

"Qi'er, you seem to have framed Miss Xiang Er just now, don't you have anything to say to her now?" the emperor asked with narrowed eyes.

"My son...my son...."

"Miss Xianger, you have been wronged."

"Ministers are not wronged, it's just that someone is wronged, and I ask the emperor to make the decision." Xiang Suining said, took two steps forward, knelt down facing the emperor, and kowtowed respectfully.

So solemn, it must be a big deal.

The emperor put down the tea bowl, picked up a string of Buddhist beads handed over by the little eunuch, and twirled it in his palm, fiddled with it from time to time: "Who has grievances, you can tell me."

"The daughter of the people wants to beg the emperor to let the second prince release him."

"Oh?"

"Recently, the emperor asked the second prince to help deal with the Qingcheng plague. The second prince was able to walk outside the palace. In the past two days, for some reason, he had a conflict with a group of refugees living in the bridge hole. The second prince, he... he... they Killed a lot of people, and took away a child under three years old. Now it is not known whether the child is dead or alive. The daughter of the people begged the emperor to decide and ask the whereabouts of the child. If she is alive, please be merciful to the second prince , what is wrong with a childish child?"

"What did you say?" The emperor threw the beads in his hand onto the table. The beads slid and slid on the table, and finally fell to the ground with a crisp sound of "pop".

The living room was eerily quiet.

The emperor tried his best to suppress his voice: "You said that the second child... are these all true?"

"It's all true."

"You... well, Xiang Suining, what good did the fifth brother give you, and you actually joined him to frame me? If you don't want to marry me, just put it bluntly, why do you want to put me to death?" Guo Kaiwang Looking at Xiang Suining, his eyes could shoot fire, he crawled to the emperor's feet, hugged the emperor's leg and begged: "Father, my son has never done such a thing. Although father, my son is not good, but You dare not do murder and arson, father, don't listen to this... don't listen to Xiang Suining's nonsense." Guo Kai pretended to be wronged.

"Second girl, although I am the father of Jie'er, I am also the emperor of all the people in the world. If Jie'er really does something rebellious...I will never condone it, but...human life is a matter of heaven and earth, do you have any idea?" Any evidence?"

Xiang Suining nodded, and calmly took out a feathered arrow from his sleeve: "They kill people with knives, but they also use feathered arrows. This feathered arrow is taken from the human body."

This feather arrow almost killed Rainbow.

The feathers on the arrow looked as bright as if they had fallen into a dyeing vat. Such bright and moving feathers were taken from some rare bird or beast, and they definitely did not belong to the people.

Lu Ying was standing beside the emperor, he took the feather arrow and handed it to the emperor with both hands.

The emperor touched the feathers at the end of the tail, his face became more and more ugly.

Guo Kai watched Xiang Suining take out the arrow, his lips trembled.

"Cao'er, take a look, what is this?" the emperor asked.

Guo Cheng trembled and didn't answer.

The eldest prince sat silently, his eyes swept over the feathered arrow, as if he knew it in his heart, but he didn't say a word.

On the contrary, Guo Yi couldn't sit still, he knelt down and cupped his hands and said: "If my child remembers correctly, the other end of this feather arrow is engraved with very small characters, which is the name of the second brother. In recent years, the second brother likes to shoot arrows. , each feather arrow is specially made, and there is only one copy of the bright feathers, the emperor will know it when he looks at it."

The emperor didn't look at Yu Jian, but at Guo Cheng.

"Father, my son... didn't kill anyone... this feathered arrow belongs to me, but... my son... is a martial arts practitioner, and he often draws a bow to shoot arrows, so the number of feathered arrows shot is countless. If someone with a heart picks it up and framed my son, wouldn't my son be wronged?"

What Guo Cheng said makes sense.

The emperor bowed his head and thought for a while, then pressed the feather arrow on the table.

Guo Kai stared at Xiang Suining angrily: "What enmity do I have with you? You want to frame me like this? I didn't expect you to be good-looking but have such vicious thoughts. Do you feel jealous when you see me walking with Miss Xiangsan?" , so you want to put me to death? Do you know what crime it is to frame the prince?"

"I did not frame the Second Prince."

"Then tell me, who did I kill?"

"You killed those people under the bridge."

"Do you have any evidence? This feather arrow is a dead thing, it can't speak, and it can't be counted."

(End of this chapter)